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This study investigated the value preferences of lay women and men who taught in Roman Catholic secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Miami. Questionnaires were sent to a stratified random sample of 353 full-time secondary school teachers, and a total of 168 lay respondents returned usable forms. Respondents were asked to complete a brief demographic profile and the Study of Values survey. The survey consisted of two parts. Part 1 was comprised of 30 questions, each of which asked the respondent to select one of two or more alternative answers and note the strength of preference for each answer. Part 2 was composed of 15 questions which required the respondent to rank each question with 4 alternative answers ranging from most preferred to the least preferred. The survey focused on six values: aesthetic, economic, political, religious, social, and theoretical. Mean scores and analyses of variance tests concluded that the religious value was the dominant preference for the respondents, followed in descending orde